Syntactic of English Middle constructions

Abstract EN

This research aims to discuss "English middle constructions" regarding their generic meaning.

it also demonstrates that the genericity of "English middle constructions" is different from that of other generic sentences.

for instance; first: middles have the properties of generic sentences; their stativity derives from their genericity.

second: the genericity of middles derives from their stativity, but they are actually stative sentences and like many state verbs.

the main purpose of this research is to evaluate which of these two analyses is more descriptively adequate, Blackwell, (2005), K.

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(2009), Lekakou (2002), (2004).